Safety clothesline pulley



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UNITED STATES PATENT ,FFICE ALFRED E. VAUTI-IIER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY CLOTHESLINE PULLEY Application filedApril 4, 1928.

This invention relates to pulley line holders and in particular to one of the safety type which may be swung into the room preparatory to hanging out or removing clothes on the line.

A particular object of the invention is to vprovide a simplified safety clothes line pulley carrying arm which may be swung into the room and which will permit the clothes to be placed on the line without the necessity of the housewife leaning out of the window.

A still further object of the invention is looking member which will effectively lock the pulley in its inwardly swung position so that the weight of the clothes on the line V will not have a tendency to swing the pulley to a position exterior of the window.

A still further object of the invention and an important one, is the provision of means in connection with a device of this character whereby when the device is swung pivotally to a position exterior of the window,

' the line carried thereby will not be taut- .ened by reason of its being folded upon itself but will be moved about a pin with a wrapping movement so that the line will not be placed under tension with subsequent harm to the clothes pole to which the line is attached, at its outer end.

A still further important object of the I invention is to provide a means for mounting a safety clothes line pulley so that 1t can, when swung into the room, be disposed in substantial alignment with the clothes line itself.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully comprehend the underlying features of my invention that they may embody the same in the various modifications in structure and relation contemplated, a drawing such drawing, similar reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout all the views, of which,

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved safety clothes line pulley showing how the same is positioned within a room to Serial No. 267,290.

permit the taking in or the hanging out of being shown swung into position to permit the taking in or hanging out of clothes.

Figure 3 is a view in end elevation of the device as illustrated in Figure 2, the view being taken from the outer end of the device and being shown partly in section to show how the arm carrying member may be locked in any one of a number of desired pivotal positions, and

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the device, the swinging movement thereof being illustrated in outline to show how the pulley line will-be wrapped around a suitable pin member so that tauteningthereof is prevented.

Figure 5 is a view in elevation showing the sliding bolt arrangement.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 5 indicates the wooden sash frame of a window construction, the portion thereof exterior of the sashes being indicated by-the numeral 6 and being arranged tosupport the standard or base 7 of the safety clothes line pulley construction, the same being secured to the sash frame portion 6 through the mepasses through the ears 9, one of the latter.

of whichis provided with an enlarged opening 12 to receive the nut 13 which effectively locks said tongue l0 between the ears 9 and prevents free pivotal rotation of the bracket. 4 By loosening up onthe head of the bolt 11, the bracket 10 may be swung to V any position'so that a pulley carrying arm carried thereby may be positioned longitudinally of the line. The bracket is provided with the spaced portions 14; which have cast integral therewith spool-like extensions 15 constituting posts having enlarged outer edges 16 which prevent the line from slipping over the ends thereof.

These spool-like extensions are positioned at one corner of the-extensions 14 of the bracket and are so arranged that the en-.

the outer periphery of the'pulley being covered through the medium of a suitable guard 21 which is secured in any suitable manner to the end 19 of the pulley carryingv arm. i

The opposite end of the arm 18 is enlarged as at 22 and fits snugly within the projec- 'tion 14 of the bracket and is hinged therein through the medium of the hinge pin 23 which permits pivotal rotation of the arm 18 Within the bracket.

In order to lock the arm when it is drawn into the room, I have provided a bolt 24, one end of which is upturned as at 2-5 to permit engagement by the hand to withdraw or otherwise manipulate the bolt, the bolt being secured in slidable relation to the arm'through the medium of the pin andslot connection 26, the bolt being further guided by a guide eye 27 which is cast or otherwise secured to the pulley carrying arm 18. One

side of the enlarged end 22 of the arm 18 is flattened and spaced from the wall of the bracket andrthis space permits the-bolt 24 to be slid between the end 22 of the arm and the bracket thus preventing accidental rotation of the arm 18 when the same has n been swung into position within the room "to permit removal or hanging'out of the clothes.

In Figure 4, it will be notedthat the pivot pin 23 is so situated relativelyto the spool-' like extension 15 that when the arm 18 is V swung to a position outside the window, this swinging position being noted by outline in Figure 4, that the clothes line 27 will be wrapped about said extension 15.

In devices of this character heretofore employed, the pivotal movement of the swinging arm has caused thelineto be placed under tension .with the result that any dampness causes a still "further tension in the line and the pulley holding hook is jeither drawn out of the clothes pole or outward until the else the clothes pole itself is loosened. In

the use of my device, it will beevident that the bolt 24 acts as a safety device in that it will not permit the arm 17 to swing bolt is withdrawn. Alsofin my improved device, the use of a pivoted bracket which may be locked in any fore reserve the right and privilege of hanging out or removal of the clothes therefrom.

V It is evident also that when the arm 17 has been drawn into the room for removal of the clothes, the line 27 can be released from its connection with the spool-like extension 15 of the bracket and the clothes can be removed therefrom with a minimum of effort and time. I

It is evident, therefore, that my device provides for the safe hanging of clothes on a pulley line, that it eliminates any necessity for the housewife leaning out of the Window and also it provides for adjustment'of the pulley holding arm so t hat the position of the clothes pole relative tothe window is immaterial and once the bracket is set in its angular position relatively to the base, it need not be removed nor further adjusted. WVhiIe I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity, I realize that in'practice various alterations therein may be made.- I therechanging the form of the details of construction-or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts with'out departing from the spirit'of the'invention or the scopeof the appended claim.

Having thusdescribed my invention what I claim as new and desire to "secure by United States Letters Patent is A clotheslline safety device comprising a base, a bracket, a bolt joining said base and bracket and permitting adjustable movement of the'latte'r, spaced extensions on the bracket, a pulley arm having an end disposed between said bracket extensions, one side of the arm being spaced from a side of 1 said bracket, a pivot pin connecting the bracket and arm to permit swinging movement ofthe latter,a bolt on the armslidable 'into the space between the arm and the bracket to prevent swinging movement of I the arm and a post on each of said bracket extensions to be engaged by the clothes line.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALFRED E. VAUTHIER. [n s] 

